I am getting ready to build a couple of 4 x 12 foot raised garden
boxes. Any pointers or suggestions. Mostly will be for tomatoes,
onions, garlic, and kitchen herbs ( cilantro, rosemary, oregano, etc

bob

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:45:34 -0600, greyebeard painted grafitti on
my boxcar saying:
oops, forgot to mention that I am in central Texas, Dallas area.

I am getting ready to build a couple of 4 x 12 foot raised garden
boxes. Any pointers or suggestions. Mostly will be for tomatoes,
onions, garlic, and kitchen herbs ( cilantro, rosemary, oregano, etc

bob

greyebeard wrote:

I am getting ready to build a couple of 4 x 12 foot raised garden
boxes. Any pointers or suggestions. Mostly will be for tomatoes,
onions, garlic, and kitchen herbs ( cilantro, rosemary, oregano, etc

bob


Work in compost whenever possible and mulch up and dig in leaves in the
fall. You'll do GREAT with that garden!

Tom

greyebeard wrote:

I am getting ready to build a couple of 4 x 12 foot raised garden
boxes. Any pointers or suggestions. Mostly will be for tomatoes,
onions, garlic, and kitchen herbs ( cilantro, rosemary, oregano, etc

bob


Work in compost whenever possible and mulch up and dig in leaves in the
fall. You'll do GREAT with that garden!

Tom

greyebeard wrote in message
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I am getting ready to build a couple of 4 x 12 foot raised garden
boxes. Any pointers or suggestions. Mostly will be for tomatoes,
onions, garlic, and kitchen herbs ( cilantro, rosemary, oregano, etc

bob

Get a couple of hundred pounds of chicken manure and mix it with a good
quality, clean, top soil.

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:45:34 -0600, wrote:

I am getting ready to build a couple of 4 x 12 foot raised garden
boxes. Any pointers or suggestions. Mostly will be for tomatoes,
onions, garlic, and kitchen herbs ( cilantro, rosemary, oregano, etc

bob

A raised bed is no more than an oversized container. Treat it as such and
you should have no problems. Soil prep is critical as is maintaining the
right moisture for what you decide to grow. You shouldn't have any
problem with drainage.

On Sat, 28 Feb 2004 12:45:34 -0600, wrote:

I am getting ready to build a couple of 4 x 12 foot raised garden
boxes. Any pointers or suggestions. Mostly will be for tomatoes,
onions, garlic, and kitchen herbs ( cilantro, rosemary, oregano, etc

bob

A raised bed is no more than an oversized container. Treat it as such and
you should have no problems. Soil prep is critical as is maintaining the
right moisture for what you decide to grow. You shouldn't have any
problem with drainage.

yeah, right.... dont put it upwind from where you smell. Ingrid

"Ricky" wrote:
Get a couple of hundred pounds of chicken manure and mix it with a good
quality, clean, top soil.




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yeah, right.... dont put it upwind from where you smell. Ingrid

"Ricky" wrote:
Get a couple of hundred pounds of chicken manure and mix it with a good
quality, clean, top soil.




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yeah, right.... dont put it upwind from where you smell. Ingrid

"Ricky" wrote:
Get a couple of hundred pounds of chicken manure and mix it with a good
quality, clean, top soil.

Yeah, RIGHT. I built a raised garden for vegetables many years ago in our
first house. The garden was 8 feet wide and 24 feet long and 3 feet high. I
mixed in 300 pounds of chicken manure in the late fall. The vegetables I got
that spring and every spring for 12 years after that were the most flavorful
and healthy I've ever grown. We grew eggplant that was over a foot long and
8 inches wide. Tomatoes that were 4 to 5 inches in diameter, beans,
cucumbers, bell peppers, lettuce, carrots. You name it, everything grew and
grew without stopping until I pulled out the plants the first week in
December. This was at a house in suburban NJ! I've never seen anything work
as well as chicken manure. And by the way, once it was mixed into the soil
and overwintered, there was no smell.

wrote in message
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yeah, right.... dont put it upwind from where you smell. Ingrid

"Ricky" wrote:
Get a couple of hundred pounds of chicken manure and mix it with a good
quality, clean, top soil.

Yeah, RIGHT. I built a raised garden for vegetables many years ago in our
first house. The garden was 8 feet wide and 24 feet long and 3 feet high. I
mixed in 300 pounds of chicken manure in the late fall. The vegetables I got
that spring and every spring for 12 years after that were the most flavorful
and healthy I've ever grown. We grew eggplant that was over a foot long and
8 inches wide. Tomatoes that were 4 to 5 inches in diameter, beans,
cucumbers, bell peppers, lettuce, carrots. You name it, everything grew and
grew without stopping until I pulled out the plants the first week in
December. This was at a house in suburban NJ! I've never seen anything work
as well as chicken manure. And by the way, once it was mixed into the soil
and overwintered, there was no smell.

greyebeard wrote:

I am getting ready to build a couple of 4 x 12 foot raised garden
boxes. Any pointers or suggestions. Mostly will be for tomatoes,
onions, garlic, and kitchen herbs ( cilantro, rosemary, oregano, etc

Do some soil preparation under the bed first. Tomatoes are
deep-rooted, sometimes sending their roots several feet down.
Rosemary is a woody shrub that also has deep roots.

If gophers or ground squirrels are a problem in your area, line
the bed with 1/4 inch galvanized wire mesh, bringing the mesh all
the way up the sides to the top of the frame. You can put the
mesh on the surface under the raised portion Tomatoes and
rosemary (and anything else) will send their roots down through
the mesh. The plants can survive if those lower roots are
sometimes nibbled, but the varmints are really most interested in
the thicker roots that will be protected.

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greyebeard wrote:

I am getting ready to build a couple of 4 x 12 foot raised garden
boxes. Any pointers or suggestions. Mostly will be for tomatoes,
onions, garlic, and kitchen herbs ( cilantro, rosemary, oregano, etc

Do some soil preparation under the bed first. Tomatoes are
deep-rooted, sometimes sending their roots several feet down.
Rosemary is a woody shrub that also has deep roots.

If gophers or ground squirrels are a problem in your area, line
the bed with 1/4 inch galvanized wire mesh, bringing the mesh all
the way up the sides to the top of the frame. You can put the
mesh on the surface under the raised portion Tomatoes and
rosemary (and anything else) will send their roots down through
the mesh. The plants can survive if those lower roots are
sometimes nibbled, but the varmints are really most interested in
the thicker roots that will be protected.

--

David E. Ross
http://www.rossde.com/

I use Mozilla as my Web browser because I want a browser that
complies with Web standards. See http://www.mozilla.org/.

the operant conditions...

"Ricky" wrote:
once it was mixed into the soil and overwintered, there was no smell.




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endorsements or recommendations I make.

the operant conditions...

"Ricky" wrote:
once it was mixed into the soil and overwintered, there was no smell.




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http://puregold.aquaria.net/
www.drsolo.com
Solve the problem, dont waste energy finding who's to blame
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Unfortunately, I receive no money, gifts, discounts or other
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endorsements or recommendations I make.